Improvement in fences



UNITED STATES,

PATENT CFFICE.

PRESTON C. PEABSON, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND T.E. O. BRINLY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 116,989, dated July11, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PRESTON C. PEARsoN, of Louisville, in the county ofJe'erson and State of Kentucky, have invented a certain Improvement inFences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawingmaking part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a frontelevation of a picket-fence partly in section, and also showing asection of a rail-fence arranged at right angles to the `former. Fig. 2is a transverse section through the post. Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section,showing the manner of connecting the picket and rail-fences at Figs. 4and 5 are views ofthe casting by which two panels are joined to thepost.

The same letters of reference are used in all the gures in thedesignation of identical parts.

This invention relates to fences; and consists in the manner or meansemployed for connecting the panels together, as will be generally setforth in the following description and specificallyT pointed out in theclaim.

A and B represent panels of a picket-fence, to the horizontal rails ofwhich a vertical beam, C, is bolted at each end and upon the inner sidethereof. A tenen, C', is formed upon each end of these beams to enter amortisc or socket in the castings D and D', which, by means of a largercentral aperture, are slipped upon a post, E. The latter has an arm oranchor, Ef, either buried in the ground, as shown in the drawing, orwhich may form the shoe with which the post rests upon the ground. Inthe latter case it may be loaded with a heavy rock or staked to theground, so as to give the required irmn'ess to the post. Theconstruction of the castings or locking-pieces D and D1 is clearly shownin Figs. 1, 4, and 5, cach having a large central opening or aperture,D2, fitting the post E, and upon each end a' socket, D3, fitting thetenons C of the beams C. The piece D1 is slipped on the post, it beingsupported on a shoulder thereon so that the openings of its socket D3point upward to receive the tenons of the beams C of two adjacent panelsof the fence, which are then secured by the upper casting D in themanner shown in Fig. 1. In the example exhibited the post E stands alittle in rear of the palings of the fence, but the locking-pieces maybe so formed as to bring the former in line with the latter.

By amodied arrangement of the sockets of the castings they may also beused to connect two panels standing at right angles to each other, thecentral aperture being omitted where no post is placed in the corner.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination of the panels A B, constructed with tenoned beams C C',post E, and castings D and D1, substantially as and for the pur pose setforth..

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

PRESTON C. PEABSON.

Witnesses:

A. D. MILES, J. B. HARDY.

